Pat Bertram is the author of Grief: The Inside Story – A Guide to Surviving the Loss of a Loved One and Grief: The Great Yearning, “an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.” Bertram is also the author of the suspense novels Unfinished, Madame ZeeZee’s Nightmare, Light Bringer, Daughter Am I, More Deaths Than One, and A Spark of Heavenly Fire.

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Free Ebook! No Strings (Or Pages) Attached

January 30, 2011 — Pat Bertram

Light Bringer, my fourth novel will be released this spring. To make way room for my new book, Second Wind Publishing is clearing out the ebook inventory of my previous three novels by giving away a free copy to everyone who leaves a comment on this blog post. That’s a joke, sort of — there is no such thing as ebook inventory clearance. Since ebooks exist only in the infinite reaches of cyber space, there is no inventory to clear. What is not a joke is that Second Wind is giving away free ebooks — that part is true.

All you have to do to receive a free ebook is to leave a comment mentioning which of my books you want to read. (Descriptions of all three are listed on the right sidebar.) We will send you a coupon code to use at Smashwords.com where you can download your free book in whatever format you choose.

Well, what kind of a friend would I be if I didn’t help you make room for your newest book? So even though I own all of your books in print I’d love to have Daughter Am I as an eBook. I’m really hoping to get a reader at some point this year. I’m looking forward to having a library at my fingertips.

“More Deaths than One” sounds intriguing. However, I don’t have an e-reader (yet). I notice the format – view as web page. Would I be able to log in to a web page when I wished to read, or what? If I do not have to own an e-reader, I am interested. Thank you for this fine opportunity, Pat. Blessings to you…

Yes, you can log in and read it whenever you wish, since the book will become part of your smashwords library. You can also download a pdf to your computer, and read it without having to be logged into Smashwords.

You shouldn’t do this to me. I am an unrecovering book glutton. I’m still trying to figure out how to take the laptop to bed to read without risking breaking it or starting a house fire when I fall asleep reading. Some day, maybe, I can start saving up for an ereader.

I have been very interested in reading Daugher Am I for some time. Your many posts on this book have left me very curious. My biggest obstacle in spending money on ebooks (other than budgetary constraints caused by the fact that being a stay at home mom pays diddly squat) is that my ereader a.k.a. laptop isn’t actually meant to be used on the lap wherever/whenever despite the misleading name.

I would love to read your first effort, More Deaths Than One because I find your premise intriguing. As I’m currently working on my first effort and my heroine faces a twist on family ties to solve her parents’ murders in Wyoming, I’m interested in how you handled the seeing double issue.

Hi Pat, I haven’t read any of your books because I just got my Kindle for Christmas so I’m trying to check out lots of Ebooks. I’d like a copy old Daughter Am I, though they all sound great. I’ll probably buy the others soon.

Pat, The free eBook is a nice offer, but I stopped by to give you some love. Remember back when we were both unpublished? Some people were supportive, others scoffed enough for two people. Well look at us now! Your 4th book is coming down the pipeline! You’re not a flash-in-the-pan, or a one-book-wonder; you’re a bard, a story weaver with many more tales to tell.
I stopped by to give you xoXOxo, but my mamma didn’t raise a fool. I’d like a copy of More Deaths Than One.

Grief: The Inside Story – A Guide to Surviving the Loss of a Loved One debunks many established beliefs about what grief is, explains how it affects those left behind, and shows how to adjust to a world that no longer contains the loved one. “It is exactly what folk need to read who are grieving.”(Leesa Heely Emotional/Mental Health Therapist & Educator ).

Other books by Pat Bertram

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Grief: The Great Yearning is not a how-to but a how-done, a compilation of letters, blog posts, and journal entries Pat Bertram wrote while struggling to survive her first year of grief. This is an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.

While sorting through her deceased husband’s effects, Amanda is shocked to discover a gun and the photo of an unknown girl who resembles their daughter. After dedicating her life to David and his vocation as a pastor, the evidence that her devout husband kept secrets devastates Amanda. But Amanda has secrets of her own. . .

When Pat’s adult dance classmates discover she is a published author, the women suggest she write a mystery featuring the studio and its aging students. One sweet older lady laughingly volunteers to be the victim, and the others offer suggestions to jazz up the story. Pat starts writing, and then . . . the murders begin.

Thirty-seven years after being abandoned on the doorstep of a remote cabin in Colorado, Becka Johnson returns to try to discover her identity, but she only finds more questions. Who has been looking for her all those years? And why are those same people interested in fellow newcomer Philip Hansen?

When twenty-five-year-old Mary Stuart learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents -- grandparents her father claimed had died before she was born -- she becomes obsessed with finding out who they were and why someone wanted them dead.

In quarantined Colorado, where hundreds of thousands of people are dying from an unstoppable, bio-engineered disease, investigative reporter Greg Pullman risks everything to discover the truth: Who unleashed the deadly organism? And why?

Bob Stark returns to Denver after 18 years in SE Asia to discover that the mother he buried before he left is dead again. At her new funeral, he sees . . . himself. Is his other self a hoaxer, or is something more sinister going on?